VS Arduino - Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled

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Joe Mattioni Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2022	Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled May 10^th, 2022 at 3:22pm	Print Post
	This started in VS2019 with extension installed. After it happened there returning to Microchip Studio it had the same problem.


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2920 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #1 - May 10^th, 2022 at 5:22pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the report. Can you confirm the below settings are set in both IDEs: vMicro > Debugger, Uncheck Automatic Software Debugging (Release/Debug) vMicro > Debugger, set to Debug: Off If you then perform a build it should work as expected. If it does not please attach a full build log from your project, with the options shown in the yellow box at the top of the page.


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Joe Mattioni Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2022	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #2 - May 11^th, 2022 at 1:24pm	Print Post
	Debug settings were as you specified. Did full Release build. When I click the Serial Monitor button it launches the debugger. Build file attached.
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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2920 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #3 - May 11^th, 2022 at 1:41pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the update. If you perform the full Build & Upload to the board with this configuration set, it should then stop opening the Serial Debugger.


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Joe Mattioni Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2022	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #4 - May 11^th, 2022 at 2:02pm	Print Post
	No, it still starts the debugger. It even starts it when I first connect the usb cable to the board. It also pops up the window shown in attached. I should mention that this all started when I installed the Arduino extension into VS2019. Prior to that I was using Microchip Studio and the Serial Monitor worked as expected. But, now even Microchip Studio tries to launch the debugger. So it's some global setting that affected both IDEs.
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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2920 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #5 - May 11^th, 2022 at 2:29pm	Print Post
	Are you running both IDE's at the same time? Have you clicked Save All before performing the Build & Upload (when only one IDE is open)?


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Joe Mattioni Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2022	Re: Opening serial monitor launches debugger even though it's disabled Reply #6 - May 11^th, 2022 at 2:33pm	Print Post
	That did the trick! Thank you. Was not running both IDEs at once.
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